It may be unfortunate but it is accurate.
I’m also a top, and also fairly active MM sex life, but I’m not cloistered in a group of friends I’ve known forever (which would be awesome good on ya for having that!), I’m in the trenches lol.
I have been rejected by bottoms when I say I only play safe with condoms, “lf I wanted to get fucked by something rubber I’d just use a dildo!” Literally every other bottom who hits me up on Grindr leads with “Breed me daddy”. My reply of no deal, I only play safe gets me blocked better than half the time. That’s fine because I wouldn’t want them anyway, but it is illustrative of the absolute wreck that safe sex practices find themselves in the gay community. Prep, doxy, and the mpox vax (all of which I’m on) have led men who have sex with men to think they are invincible. No, not all of them, but a percentage large enough to spoil the whole bunch.
Add to that we are the demographic most at risk for STD’s…well gee I don’t really wonder why some see us as plague rats.

